HAPPY EASTER!
Easter is the time of renewal for those of the Christian Faith. It is also the true Advent of Spring, the first major holiday weekend for the British people. It is the time when blossom is on the bough, and spring flowers from daffodils to bluebells and primroses, backed by the bright bushes of yellow […]
AN APOLOGY FOR DISCERNING COUNTERFEITS
By Peter Longley, MA (Cantab) Author of The Flavian Trilogy Star of Destiny, Fishers of Men and Along the Eagle’s Way The following is based on a reading for meditation from 1 John 4:1-6 found in the daily series Every Day with Jesus. “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to […]
COULD MARY MAGDALENE BE THE AUTHOR OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL
By Peter Longley, MA (Cantab) Author of Star of Destiny, Fishers of Men and Along the Eagle’s Way (The Flavian Trilogy) Some time ago I read with great interest an article by Ramon Jusino on the subject of Mary Magdalene as the author of the Fourth Gospel. My interest is centered on the fact that […]
THE THEOLOGY OF DOUBT
I have asked myself many times why I still care for the church when I have by my own definition become divorced from many of its dogmas, doctrines and beliefs. Now an octogenarian, I look back on my life and often ask myself if I could have lived it differently. People are envious. I lived […]
Why I still go to Church?
Since the age of nine I have been driven by a force beyond my control that I call a vocation. I lay it at the feet of a visionary experience that I perceived quite out of the blue while away at a boys’ preparatory school on the south coast of Sussex in 1954. I took […]
APOLOGIA – A personal Assessment of my Faith
By Peter Longley, M.A. (Cantab) Vocation defines many people’s lives from a very early age lasting until their deaths. It might be inspired by a close family connection, whereby a medical doctor’s child believes it is his or her destiny to also be a medical practitioner, or a professional footballer might have a child who […]
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
By Peter Longley I was sent the following article by a good friend the other day. It appeared in the Springfield News-Leader, a local newspaper of Springfield, Missouri that until relatively recently was my home in the USA. Searching for the sound of silence Last week, my wife, Becky, and I took a bargain […]
The Miracle of Birth – An Examination of the Christmas Story
By Peter Longley The other day after the Wednesday 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion service I was asked if I thought Jesus was dyslexic. This set me thinking of what we know and don’t know about Jesus. I can’t comment on whether he was dyslexic for complete lack of evidence, but the question did lead me […]